[Note:Of the Third Continental Dragoons. ]

   Head Quarters, October 1, 1778.

    Sir: You are as speedily as possible to collect all the men, Horses and accoutrements remaining of Colo. Baylors Regt. and proceed to Springfield in Jersey, where you will consult with Mr. Caldwell the D. Q. M., upon the most proper place for the accommodation of the men and Horses, so as not to exhaust the forage that lays convenient for the Travelling Teams, and other purposes. The design of your being ordered on this business, is to recruit the Horse as expeditiously as possible, and it is hoped you will exert yourself to effect so essential an end. The sick you will take care to have placed in the Hospital most convenient to you, and where it may be in your power to visit them. That part of the Regt. now with Genl. Woodford, requiring your attention too, will as soon as they can be spared from the service they are on, be ordered to join you; of this, you will give the Serjt. who commands them notice. As soon as can be you will transmit me a very particular return of the state of the Regt. specifying where the Officers and Men are. ¹⁰

[Note:The draft is in the writing of Richard Kidder Meade.

   On October 1 Washington wrote a brief note to Brig. Gen. Charles Scott, acknowledging his account of Colonel Butler's victory: "to whom and all the Officers of his party, be pleased to present my thanks for their behaviour." This letter is in the Washington Papers in the Library of Congress.

   Also, according to an unauthenticated copy in the Toner Transcripts in the Library of Congress, Washington sent general instructions to Brig. Gen. William Smallwood to use his best endeavors to enlist the Maryland draft for three years, or the war. The recruits were to receive the continental bounty of $20, clothing, and land: "You or the officers appointed by you are not to enlist the drafts or soldiers belonging to any but your own state ." ]